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.stem are secured together.

In said view, a is the tag-stem, b the anchor, and c the wire whichpasses through holes in @and b, to secure witch tetes stw't frs.,

WILLIAM N. WEEDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.-

Leam Patent No. 77,424, nieuwe 28,1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN '-IAG--EASTENINGS.k

To ALL WHeM IT MAYA coNcEnN;

Be it known that I, WILLIAMn: WEEDEN, oi Besten, in the county -ofSu'olk,and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tagsfor Marking Cotton-Baltes, AZito.; and do hereby declare that thefollowing, taken in connection with the drawings which accompanyand formpart of this specification, is a description of my invention sufiicientto enable those skilled in the art to practise it.

This invention is au improvement upon the invention of E. A. Locke,patented May 24, 1864, under the number 42,860, relating to tags forcottonfbales, in the construction of the hook or anchor, and in themethod of its application to the stem of the tag. l A

In'said patent the anchor was made of a piece of flattened andslightly-bent wire, and was attached to the.

stem of the tag by rivets or a wire passing through holes made in thetag-stem and in the anchor, which holes weakened both parts.

My imp roY-ement consists in lforming the anchor out of a. sheet-metalblank, which is bent and curved so as to secure the desired form andstiffness, andl i s made toencompass and hold the end of thejstem of thetag by flanges, which are bent over and upon the stem, the parts beingsecured from slipping or moving, by being indented together. y.

Figure 1, of the drawing,represents in section the manner in which, insaid patent, the anchor and the tag-A them together.

Figure 2 shows the form of the punched bla-nk of sheet metal, which, bybending and swaging in dies, is made to assume the formseen in front andside views in Figures 3. and 4.

The wide parts of the blank, marked d d, are the ilanges, which arefolded upon the tag-stem aas seen in Figure 5, which is a front viewof atag, with' my improved anchory secured thereunto.

Figure 6 showing the same in side view. v y

-One end ofthe blank, e, is turned or bent to an angle with the body, asseen clearly in figs. 4 and 6, this bent end being thenpartwhich coupleswith the piercing-instrument, by which the anchor and its annexed tagare inserted in a bale of brous material, while the other end, f, isbent and swaged into4 an acute-angled trough, and forms the barb whichcatches in the fibres of any baled material, and resists pull upon thetag 'exerted :to extract it. v

.When the anchor is made into the form seen in figs'. 3 and 4, theendofthe tag-stem is placed between the iiangesd d, which are then bent andclosed down upon ,said stem, and are subjected to indentation, by whichthe two parts, the anchor andthe stem, are so united that one or theother will break before any slip can take place between them.

The bent angular form given to the end,lf, makes it very rigid, andprevents it from yielding or bending when the tag is pulled upon.

` I claim the improved vanchor, as made with the hook e, theencompassinganges oZ d, and the angularlyformed barb f.

WILLIAM N. WEEDEN. Witnesses:

J. B. Caesar, FRANCIS GroULn.

